Deniz Yücel, Die Welt journalist arrested and condemned in Turkey

Denied rights: journalism’s struggle for freedom of expression

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🔔 Pleased to announce our #ijf17 speakers. All festival sessions are free entry for all attendees. Come and join us!

• “No one is left in Aleppo”: interview with Journalist Zaina Erhaim. She was due to travel to the USA this month along with three other Syrian women to screen their documentary series, Syria’s Rebellious Women. But President Donald Trump’s executive order on the travel ban for seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria, saw the US State Department-funded tour cancelled.
  🔔 Zaina Erhaim will be a #ijf17 speaker:

• Two women, two stories of denied rights, persecution, and the price that authoritarian regimes impose to those who seek truth and fight for freedom of expression.
  🔔 Maryam Al-Khawaja and Khadija Ismayilova will be #ijf17 speakers:

• Some journalists in Turkey were prevented from covering women’s march. Here is the CPJ’s “Turkey Crackdown Chronicle” of the week.
• Is Turkey safe for foreign journalists? Deportation is not the only weapon the Turkish government is using to silence foreign journalists. European journalists, particularly Germans, are the most targeted group.
  🔔 We’ll tackle this topic at #ijf17:

• Here are 21 women running U.S. media organizations now. Margaret Sullivan noted that at large American newspapers there are far fewer top female editors than a decade ago, according to a 2014 Nieman Reports study.
• But is not enough. NYT’s public editor Liz Spayd wrote about women in newsroom. “Being the only woman in a meeting can produce a feeling of having walked into the men’s room. But more significantly a gender, or racial, imbalance changes what’s considered news. When you combine the two variables — race and gender — you’re no longer representing the audience you’re trying to reach.”
• Tips from Vice for women starting out in journalism. “It is a really exciting time for women in media, and it just takes more young women raising their hand and coming into the field”.
• In the end, what kind of change did Edward J. Snowden bring about? Here is a chapter of Journalism After Snowden: The Future of Free Press in the Surveillance State, a recently released book from Columbia University Press.
  🔔 The book, edited by Emily Bell and Taylor Owen, will be presented at #ijf17:

• Google grabbed five major clients for its cloud business. Eric Schmidt: ‘Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight’ over it.
  🔔 We’ll tackle this topic at #ijf17:

• Last week, we read that Facebook and the ASU Cronkite School have organized a ‘News Literacy Working Group’. On Thursday, Dan Gillmor published some initial thoughts about it.
  🔔 We’ll discuss this project at #ijf17:

• Is social media the cause of fake news — or the cure? “When people talk about fake news — and by “people”, I mean human beings other than Donald Trump — they often focus on the role of social media in disseminating stories from websites that traffic in rumor or deliberately manufactured falsehood,” noted Alexandra Samuel. “We may not be able to cure the problem of fake news through social media alone, but social media and social (collaborative) software are a necessary part of the fact-lover’s toolkit.”
  🔔 We’ll tackle this topic at #ijf17:

• “Everybody’s making money on invalid traffic”: confessions of a media auditor. Talk about ad fraud has never been louder, but when it comes to stamping it out, digital media has a long way to go.
• How journalism business models are fuelling the misinformation ecosystem. James Ball, special correspondent, BuzzFeed UK, explains how the need to be first is working against accurate information, and in favour of sensationalism and hoaxes
• How Mother Jones used its prison exposé to turn readers into donors. “The journalism is all about transparency and accountability and about appealing to intelligence and going deep. So that’s the approach that we took in our fundraising. The fundraising really speaks to you in the voice of the journalism, as an integral part of the journalism.”
• Last week, De Correspondent shared a videotape and confidential reports from Shell. “As great a reporter Jelmer Mommers is, he never would have broken this scoop without the help of our readers,” explain Ernst-Jan Pfauth. Here is the story behind the story: a valuable lessons on why “readers are more than an audience — they’re an asset.”
• Is it time for a new definition of local news? Why we should care about regulation, what local means these days and what we can learn from his other research.
  🔔 We’ll tackle this topic at #ijf17:

International Journalism Festival is the biggest annual media event in Europe. It’s an open invitation to interact with the best of world journalism. All sessions are free entry for all attendees, all venues are situated in the stunning setting of the historic town centre of Perugia.